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Re: Singapore Airline has boxes installed underneath seats Posted on: 02 Apr 2007 13:40:50 GMT

"Joseph Coulter" wrote in message
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> April 2007 wrote:
>> "RAK" wrote in message
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>>> "Frank F. Matthews" wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>> RAK wrote:
>>>>> "April 2007" wrote in message
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>>>>>
>>>>>> I also understand Singapore Airline's 747 flying between SFO and HKG
>>>>>> also
>>>>>> has boxes under seats. Can anyone confirm exact box locations so that
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> avoid it. Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Those boxes are for the entertainment systems - the downside of having
>>>>> one
>>>>> of the best inflight systems around, on-demand movies in economy. They
>>>>> seem
>>>>> to be placed every few rows. As far as I remember they are usually
>>>>> under
>>>>> aisle seats in the outer rows of seats. They may be somewhere in the
>>>>> central
>>>>> rows but I never fly there (being a window seat fan on longhaul).
>>>>>
>>>>> There are so many I think you will have trouble finding out where they
>>>>> all
>>>>> are. If you are doing seat allocation at checkin you can ask to avoid
>>>>> them,
>>>>> but I think if you book your seat online or over the phone in advance
>>>>> it
>>>>> think it's just luck.
>>>>> It may even vary between 747 models (and of course some long hauls are
>>>>> not
>>>>> 747s)
>>>>>
>>>> I have usually been an aisle seat person since I often like to get up
>>>> and walk about and don't want to bother others in the row. The
>>>> airlines may just have changed that habit. I may be able to get center
>>>> section aisle seats though.
>>> Just to be clear, I did not say there are no boxes in the central
>>> section. I don't fly there so don't know. But I would guess that they
>>> would be down one side of the central section, so maybe all the left
>>> aisle central seats area clear. of all the right aisle ones.
>>> Have you looked at the SQ website, the online seat request section? It
>>> is quite detailed and just may show the boxes (though it probably
>>> doesn't)
>>>
>> Can you please be specific on the box locations, please?
>> I need to make another booking soon.
>> I also unable to find the SQ website about the box location either.
>> Thank you.
> go to www.seatguru.com they usually have the good info, though I can't
> quite reconc ile their seat plans for US Airways with the US Airways seat
> plans ;-(

No, seatguru does not show any box for Singapore Air 747-400.


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